The Sultans-Final Notice

To everybody’s relief the great Sultans-Spam of 2011 is nearing it’s end. All in all there was an accumulation of over 40 inches in Facebook entries, blogposts, postcards and emails in January alone. More than 3 times the average. The good news is that the exhibit finally opens tonight. The images are hung (hehe), the [...]

Read Full Post »

Rent-A-Sultan

First things first before it’s too late: Happy new year to all you faithful readers (and of course to the faithless ones, too). The Heavy Light is getting a slightly tardy start into 2011 partly because I’m still a little comatose from eating a ton of Janet and Joe’s christmas cookies (mmmh) but even more [...]

Read Full Post »

Coda: The Sultans get their Name

We finally ended our road trip through Turkey in Istanbul where I found the name for this project. At the Topkapi Palace is an impressive portrait gallery of the original Sultans, the Ottoman rulers of yore, and there was just no denying the resemblances of faces and postures between the subjects of the old paintings [...]

Read Full Post »

The Sultans-Part 2

Second day: After Cappadocia we traveled on to the southern coast where we stayed in a little village named Cerali. We asked Ali, the owner of the pension we stayed at, if he could recommend a local helper and he volunteered to do it himself. After walking around Cerali for a day we got the [...]

Read Full Post »

The Sultans-Part 1

I’m always fascinated by how some ideas percolate in the back of one’s mind before they find the right outlet. I took these 2 portraits in 2007 during a stock production in India (more about this in a future post) and even though I liked what I was getting during the shoot, I didn’t think [...]

Read Full Post »